Digital copies of the microfiche created from W. M. F. Petrie's excavation notebooks and tomb cards held in the archive of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Oxford. Two CDs with Mac and PC versions.
Notebook 9, recording details of excavation at Ballas, tomb groups Q51 to Q71, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 27 notebook pages.
Notebook 11, recording details of excavation at Ballas, including tomb groups Q5 to Q36, compiled by J. E. Quibell on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 34 notebook pages.
Notebook 70, recording details of excavation at Naqada, compiled by H. W. Price on behalf of Petrie. Photocopies of notebook cover and 117 notebook pages.
5 letters from Pinero, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pinero. Correspondence with an Argentinian Egyptologist.
1 letter from Poellnitz, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary), sent in Černý's absence. Book exchange and a visit to Oxford by Poellnitz.
110 letters from Posener, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Posener. 2 letters from Posener to Marie Černý. Research:
renewal of the Deir el-Medina ostraca project after the Second World War (WWII)
Posener's publication plans, work on Kemit (later published as Posener, G., Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh ii (Nos 1109 à 1167), (1951) & (1991) (OEB 3065))
Posener's research on execration figures, literary ostraca, translations of various texts
Černý's research on supposed consanguineous marriages in Egypt
book exchange and mutual help in obtaining rare volumes in Britain, Egypt and France Personal and family matters
some remarks on the situation in Czechoslovakia after the communist coup on 25 February 1948 After Černý's death, Marie Černý consulted options for Černý's posthumous publications with Posener, especially the Late Egyptian grammar and the involvement of S. Groll in the grammar project.
6 letters from Preaux, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary to Préaux, sent in Černý's absence. Appreciation of some of Černý's publications and intended publications (e.g. on ancient Egyptian religion); Préaux visited London several times during 1950 and met Černý on at least one occasion; social contact with other scholars resident in Belgium.
3 letters from Robertson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Robertson. Ostraca in the Hunterian Museum collection, and the extended loan of the Museum's ostraca to Černý.
13 letters from Roeder, 8 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Roeder. 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to a pharmaceutical company on behalf of Roeder's pupil Mrs Berger.
the situation of German Egyptology after the Second World War (WWII)
exchange of publications established despite difficulties
Roeder's research on statuary
Černý saved food from his own rations in the UK and sent it to Roeder
1 letter from Rosen. Černý's contribution to a Festschrift for Polotsky (see [Rosén, H. B.] (ed.), Studies in Egyptology and Linguistics in Honour of H. J. Polotsky (1964) (OEB 159090).